Stories about: British Telecom

At the Cebit trade show, DS2 and Devolo are showing faster power line networks, supporting speeds of up to 400M bps (bits per second) -- twice the maximum capacity that the technology provides today.

Zimbra customers appalled at the company's planned acquisition by Yahoo are speaking out, saying they are vexed by the deal and upset over its possible negative consequences.

Microsoft and British Telecommunications Monday launched a competition to encourage developers to create "network mashups" that merge telecommunications features like voice and text messaging with Web 2.0 applications like mapping and search. A "mashup" application or web site combines content from multiple sources.

Novell's second-in-command is Ron Hovsepian, who was promoted to president and COO in November 2005. Previously executive vice president and president of Novell's global field operations, Hovsepian filled the spot that Chris Stone, as vice-chairman, had vacated in November 2004.

Institutional trading houses and banks may not wear penguin migrations on their sleeves but the shift to open source within the world's dealing rooms is so pronounced that British Telecom (BT) is now shipping only one flavour of a fully converged trading console - Linux.

Open source is heading towards maturity and public recognition with breakneck speed, reaching more and more mainstream users in one form or the other - some run just one or more open source apps on proprietary platforms, others go the whole hog and run a complete open source IT solution.